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The star of the fanboy fave “Kick-Ass” is staking out a corner of Hollywood stardom, as his name is slapped on a few high profile pictures. He's co-lead in the new film of “Anna Karenina” (He is a Brit, after all, and period pieces are

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The star of the fanboy fave “Kick-Ass” is staking out a corner of Hollywood stardom, as his name is slapped on a few high profile pictures. He's co-lead in the new film of “Anna Karenina” (He is a Brit, after all, and period pieces are

Rushed into production as the rights to the book were about to expire, starring a mostly no-name cast and divided, in a most unwieldy way, into a trilogy (the novel wasn't, though it was long enough to be), “Atlas Shrugged: Part 1″ was championed b

“Savages” is a big deal Oliver Stone project based on a Don Winslow novel. The plot, described on Amazon.com, sounds a bit like “Weeds” meets “Blow” — two laid back So. Cal pot growers/dealers earn the attention of a m

We'd heard about Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal's plans to make a movie about the hunt for and killing of Osama bin Laden, a movie whose parameters and story will have to change if they're to make it now that he's actually been killed. That may not be a problem

Every since “Frida,” we've known Salma Hayek was more than just a sultry presence on the screen. Ever since “Ugly Betty,” we knew she was a producer with an eye for talent and material that would click with audiences. She has four movie

The fifth edition of the Orlando Film Festival ended Sunday night. Call it a success, as getting one of these things planned and executed is a Herculean task — movies to round up, parties to book, talent to fly in, etc. Over the course of the days I drop

Clint Eastwood's “J. Edgar” is a lumbering miscalculation, a slow and clumsy re-think of the late F.B.I. founder J. Edgar Hoover's life and career that views him through the lens of his alleged homosexuality. While the screenwriter of “Milk

Not that long ago the British film magazine Empire named the British actor Henry Cavill “the Unluckiest man in Hollywood.” Cavill, a native of the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands near France, was almost Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter movies, but Ro

The best descriptive word I've read in all the reviews of Clint Eastwood's “J. Edgar” is “timid.” He hired a gay screenwriter who won an Oscar for scripting the biography of gay rights icon Harvey Milk, made J. Edgar Hoover, the feared

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Few filmmakers have to sell a subject as unpopular as the one Oliver Stone tackles with his latest cinematic "history lesson." But you've endured eight years of George W. Bush, Stone seems to say with his new bio-pic W., what's another two...

Leonardo DiCaprio's name is coming up in discussions surrounding Clint Eastwood's planned J. Edgar Hoover bio-pic. But Oliver Stone, the sort of fellow you MIGHT expect to do aÂ J. Edgar movie, cross-dressing and all, has another project in mind for Mr.

Aljenadro Gonzalez Inarritu's Biiful will be in competition this year the Cannes Film Festival. It'll be up against Doug Liman's Fair Game, Takeshi Kitano's Outrage, and works by Mike Leigh, Bertrand Tavernier and others. Robin Hood will premiere there.Woody A

Only in Florida would candidates for the U.S. SenateÂ end up in a fistfight over former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson. And this one features accusations of hypocrisy and altered photographs. Here's the story so far: When billionaire Democratic senate c

Bill Maher has a lot of big names lined up for his HBO show this week. He will conduct interviews with film director Oliver Stone and Queen Noor of Jordan. The queen is chairwoman of the King Hussein Foundation. The panel discussion brings together Newsweek ed

The Hollywood Reporter says Bradley Cooper's on board a baseball dramedy scripted by the writer of Oliver Stone's Wall Street sequel. It's about an injured big leaguer sent to the minors to rehab, stuck in a town where the only lodging he can find is in an old

Freshman Democrat U.S. Rep. Alan Grayson is making a big campaign fund-raising push today — just before the current reporting period closes at the end of the month — and he's got some big-name celebrity help. Martin Sheen, Oliver Stone and document

Oliver Stone is one of those people in film that you always grab the chance to talk to. Agree or disagree with his politics, the angle of attack of his films, he's a fascinating brain to pick and one of the undisputed masters of his trade. I put him right up t

There's too much worth chewing over in Oliver Stone's “Wall Street” sequel, “Money Never Sleeps,” to dismiss it out of hand. Sure, it's old fashioned — '80s old fashioned, from the Tom Cruise-cocky way Shia LaBeouf plays his cocky

I'd call this a “Metacritic” weekend, if you're the sort who scans the review aggregater sites. Nothing's that good, or that awful, something your otherwise utilitarian tomatometer over at rottentomatoes misses. “Wall Street: Money Never Slee